How to draw STWIST

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Today’s pretty ribbon-style Stwist tangle is from Taiwan CZT Sylvia Liao and it’s her first on the site.

Sylvia introduces herself:

I fell in love with Zentangle art when the first time I saw it in December 2013. I found myself stuck in a rut and tried to make some change in the meantime. Then, I found Zentangle® arts on the Internet and made a quickly decision to take classes from Diane Tai (CZT#11). I also learnt many amazing tangles from tanglepatterns.com. Thank you, Linda, for managing the website, integrating so many tangles and sharing with us.

I love purely Zentangle square tiles and keep enjoying daily life with the original, black and white Zentangle works for 4 years. For knowing more about Zentangle Method and techniques from Rick and Maria, I went to the birthplace of Zentangle, and experienced the wonderful atmosphere in CZT seminar last year (CZT#29). I’m very appreciated Rick and Maria for sharing Zentangle Method and Spirits with us. I do love arts but never thought I could create arts. However, I’m an artist and I know how to relax my mind and enjoy daily life very much. ^____^

The tangle I’d like to share is “Stwist”. It occurred to me while I went with Noom without following the original step-out.

After putting several S in a row, I connected S with ” ~ “and rounding it first. Then I decided to connect the S from those little small triangles and got a twist tangle, “Stwist”.

Shortly after Sylvia sent her Stwist tangle and while I was doing my “test run” with it, I received an email from Swiss CZT Lisette Hofer with her submission for the same concept. Lisette named hers Pero.

While in both cases this tangle is based on the Zentangle-original Noom, the two CZTs found slightly different ways to approach this pattern.

I found I got more consistent results by following Lisette’s steps and she graciously gave me permission to include her Pero method along with Sylvia’s so you can try both and see which method works best for you.

Sylvia illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Stwist below where she also shows some cool variations to explore which include changing the scale as well as embellishments. In her third tile Sylvia includes Henna Drum and Finery.

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Here are Lisette’s steps for Pero and her Zentangle tile demonstrates ways to embellish further including setting it off on a contrasting black background.

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Lisette has two other tangles on the site and she recently became a Certified Zentangle Teacher® at CZT#32.

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Check out the tag sylvial for more of Sylvia’s tangles, and lisetteh for more of Lisette’s tangles on TanglePatterns.com.

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